HF3702 Summary

• Modifies administrative accounts and electronic transaction provisions for the Department of Natural Resources, including professional services support accounts and electronic licensing systems with transaction fees up to $3.50.

• Establishes new regulations for off-highway vehicles and snowmobiles, including safety certificate requirements, age restrictions for operators, registration fee changes, and sticker requirements for state trails.

• Creates the Coon Rapids Dam Commission with 14 voting and 3 nonvoting members to study options for the dam's future uses, governance, operation, and maintenance, with recommendations due by March 1, 2011.

• Modifies water law provisions including utility license applications, groundwater appropriations requirements, water monitoring equipment standards, and establishes restrictions on removing sunken logs from public waters.

• Includes appropriations totaling $310,000 for water recreation account management and ecological classification system programs, plus various procedural changes for burning permits, leases, and environmental review processes.